Read More

What they know so far

Just one gram of stool contains a whopping mix of approximately 100 billion bacteria, 100 million viruses, a million spores of fungi and a 100 million microbes known as archaea – which is similar to bacteria.

Read More

Health and fitness

Another scientist working on stool’s curing abilities, Dr Alexander Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota, USA said: “They have to compete for space, because it’s a nice place to be.”

The bacteria from a donor’s healthy gut may be superior at competing for that space.

Another theory is the bacteria might be gobbling up nutrients that competing invaders like C. difficile need to survive.

“This is something nature put together over millions and millions of years,” Dr Khoruts says.